Totally agree with the 'form' rename to 'bean' idea. Other good stuff too.
I will post my ideas as soon as possible, before I write any code if I possible. Thanks -----Original Message----- From: David Graham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 2:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: validator & inheritance >Yeah, I've got to start working on it now and understand I'll have to >adapt to what changes you guys are making. Would it be OK to discuss >what kind of work you guys are doing among us? Here's what we've done for 1.1: Refactored the validations into separate classes (see EmailValidator for example) Added new UrlValidator I just checked in a major overhaul of the Arg system to allow for more than 4 message replacement arguments. Moved javascript validation from Struts to commons-validator. Rob, is this completed or still in progress? Moved digester configuration to an xml file instead of in code. Lots of refactoring to make validator easier to understand and maintain. I'd like to release 1.1 RC1 with these changes as soon as they're complete to get feedback from the community. If you develop the inheritance feature, we could include that in 1.2. I eventually want to remove references to "forms" and replace them with "beans" to clearly indicate that commons-validator can be used to validate any kind of bean and not just forms. >It would be nice to play >into each others hands in an efficient way. Plus Im very curious too. >And I'd go over my approach with you guys too, or even follow a >recommendation if you're privy to that area of the code. Post your ideas to this list for feedback. David > >-----Original Message----- >From: Rob Leland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 10:14 AM >To: Jakarta Commons Developers List >Subject: Re: validator & inheritance > >To add to what David said. > >It sounds like you would find this useful, and it sounds very useful to >me also, so.... >I would say start working on it for yourself, work out the concepts, >based on the >current --released-- validator source code. Just know that you'll likely > >need to make changes to it >to work with the upcoming validator 1.1 release. My guess is that after >doing a version for validator 1.0.1 >source code you'll be able to suggest changes to the validator 1.1 that >we haven't even thoughtt >of ! So go scratch that itch !!! > >-Rob > > >Christopher Willingham wrote: > > >Are there are any wishes, hopes, or considerations for modifying the > >Validator by adding an extends attribute for inheritance, similar to >how > >tiles extends tile definitions? I use the validator quite a bit; for > >EJB business logic edits, daemon feed edits, standalone edits, & also >of > >course struts. Many of the core edit definitions for a particular > >entity type are the same with some variations. In fact, within our > >webapp alone we run into situations where an edit suite for a form is > >nearly the same as another yet has a slight twist or difference, thus > >causing a repeat of many edit configurations under a different bean > >name. Or perhaps there is something like that already built in(wishful > >thinking?). > > > > > > > >If no work has been done in this area, I may consider adding such a > >feature if the community here also sees its advantage. And would be > >willing to consider it for a future release. If I get positive > >feedback, perhaps one of the original builders could point me in the > >right direction for approaching this task. It doesn't seem like it > >would be extremely difficult. > > > > > > > >Please share your views! > > > > > > > >Chris Willigham > > > > > > > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
